This is my gift. This is my curse.

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Over the last few days in MMO land, I have come to a conclusion: I am terrible at DPS.

So I rolled a new character in ESO.

He is an Orc. Big bloke called Golg gro-Shub. Likes beer and a big meat breakfast.

He's a talented fighter, but his strength is in taking hits. Wears a big suit of steel plated armour, and even has a leather kilt for leg protection above his massive sabatons.

Huge sword, and a an even bigger shield. Also a staff so that he can cast spells and crap.

Yes. He is a tank. Today I discovered that I play best as support. And I'm not upset.

In fact having now taken the tank role in dungeons a few times, I bloody love it. I actually prefer it. It may not get me the fame of those top-tier damage dealers, but man it feels good to be the reason those guys deliver their damage in the first place.

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Who else finds they play best as support? I never really considered it after my long time in ED as a lone-wolf with no support, but turns out I love playing it when I have a team to work with.
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
The only multiplayer game I play would probably be World of Warships (I play MMOs singleplayer) and I, just as you, found out that there is a substantial and very important difference between roles I most enjoy playing and roles in which I am most useful to the team.
It sucks. But ultimately, you have to choose.
 

Old Duck

Old Duck
I don't know if I'm best at support, but I often enjoy playing support (usually a healer or controller) over DPS. I never really got this far in ESO, but I used to be a serious DCUO player back in the early days. Now that Overwatch enforces roles, I often pick healer even if there isn't a free loot box, as I don't always trust others to take that role seriously (nothing more annoying than a support role playing primarily as if they are a DPS dealer).
 

PhanttoM

PhanttoM
Caramel Clown said:
I mostly play tanks. When I played ESO I really liked sorcerer tank, which was coincidentally an orc :)
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They are pretty awesome.
My own main is an Imperial 2-handed greatsword sorcerer. Restoration staff as secondary weapon, which is kinda unnecessary due to the insane self-heal of critical surge. (I mainly play ESO as a solo game nowadays)
 

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PhanttoM said:
They are pretty awesome.
My own main is an Imperial 2-handed greatsword sorcerer. Restoration staff as secondary weapon, which is kinda unnecessary due to the insane self-heal of critical surge. (I mainly play ESO as a solo game nowadays)
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Interesting concept. I'm guessing you're not after maximum damage because the only way to do that is to specialise in either magicka or stamina. The only "hybrid", and I use that term very loosely here, builds that are viable are tanks, but then tanks need all resources because of the nature of their job, and a good tank has a pretty low DPS as he's built for soaking damage, not dealing it. Those resources are used to taunt, buff allies, and debuff monsters.
 

Sysmon

Sysmon
Un1k0rn said:
Over the last few days in MMO land, I have come to a conclusion: I am terrible at DPS.

So I rolled a new character in ESO.

He is an Orc. Big bloke called Golg gro-Shub. Likes beer and a big meat breakfast.

He's a talented fighter, but his strength is in taking hits. Wears a big suit of steel plated armour, and even has a leather kilt for leg protection above his massive sabatons.

Huge sword, and a an even bigger shield. Also a staff so that he can cast spells and crap.

Yes. He is a tank. Today I discovered that I play best as support. And I'm not upset.

In fact having now taken the tank role in dungeons a few times, I bloody love it. I actually prefer it. It may not get me the fame of those top-tier damage dealers, but man it feels good to be the reason those guys deliver their damage in the first place.

hen-you-finally-accept-that-your-team-does-best-when-31606464.png


Who else finds they play best as support? I never really considered it after my long time in ED as a lone-wolf with no support, but turns out I love playing it when I have a team to work with.
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I've tanked or healed for more than a decade in World of Warcraft... DPS is boooooring.

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PhanttoM

PhanttoM
Un1k0rn said:
Interesting concept. I'm guessing you're not after maximum damage because the only way to do that is to specialise in either magicka or stamina. The only "hybrid", and I use that term very loosely here, builds that are viable are tanks, but then tanks need all resources because of the nature of their job, and a good tank has a pretty low DPS as he's built for soaking damage, not dealing it. Those resources are used to taunt, buff allies, and debuff monsters.
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It's a hybrid build alright, with a roughly 33% magicka / 66% stamina split. Damage is not great, but not terrible either. That's mainly thanks to the extremely high crit chance that is used for triggering critical surge.
There are also a few things I swap out back and fourth for efficiency or fun factor, which also affect the DPS. (I love cheesing it with bolt escape :whistle: )
Overall the build is focused more towards high survivability through abilities and self heal. Critical surge + hardened ward + 2-handed "brawler" for the damage shield.

Since I play mostly alone nowadays doing overworld stuff (or anything solo'able), taunts and buff allies are rarely needed — so the resto staff only tends to help random players during the dragon encounters or in more rare cases, some of the harder overworld bosses.
 

Snarfbuckle

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Mole HD said:
Always support...from Battlefield to ARMA to Wildlands and Breakpoint to playing turret gunner in IL2 BOS...maybe because I'm good at it...most of all because I like doing it. It's what I do ;)
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Damn, i miss the older battlefield games.

Battlefield 2142 and Titan mode was awesome.

Battlefield bad company 2 was one of the best ones before the decline began.

I loved being a heavy gunner support in those games.
 

Deleted member 110222

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Turned my DPS nightblade into a pure tank. No race change, he's still a Redguard. That said Redguards aren't terrible for tanking; just rarely chosen.

Also nightblade tanks aren't common, as they're considered the purest of pure DPS classes.

But... The nightblade class actually runs tank really well. It required a complete shift of point allocation of course, and entirely new gear. But it was worth it. Because now, my DPS who was focused on dealing damage a few days ago... Can now tank it out with the best dragonknights out there. The nightblade gets his resistances from shadow magic. It's a pretty cool concept.

All in all, I'm very happy with how the nightblade performs as a tank, and I play much better as a result. Turns out I really know well how to not die if my focus is on that, rather than dishing out hits.
 

BulletTrev

BulletTrev
I like to play as a Panther class in Ghost Recon B, Xbox one X, and when in our human squad ( no AI squads ingame yet ) I really enjoy covering my team mates during enemy camp infil's.
 
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